First edition, first printing. 278pp, with two maps and maps on endpapers. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a little soft. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little bumped and toned on edges, shelf worn.
Maiwand was probably the most crushing defeat that the British Army suffered in India. This a thorough and well-balanced study of the military and political background to the campaign and the events leading up to the battle, giving a vivid description of life on the North West Frontier in the late 19th Century and a dramatic account of the battle of Maiwand.
